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Selections for Clonmel – Oct. 1st 2026
1.49: DAIRY FORCE (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.24: ROCKY’S HOWYA (KEVIN HEALY (7)/DECLAN QUEALLY) 2.59: ETERNAL REWARD (DANNY MULLINS/MAGS MULLINS) 3.34: SALLAP (PHILIP ENRIGHT/SAM CURLING) 4.09: CODGER’S ROCK – EW – (DANNY GILLIGAN/CIAN COLLINS) 4.42: HOPEFUL HERO (DONAGH MEYLER/TOM HOGAN) 5.17: TECHNOLOGY – EW – (ROSS SUGRUE (7)/JOHN MCCONNELL)
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Selections for Bellewstown – Oct. 1st 2026
1.00: CROMANE (GARY CARROLL/JOE MURPHY) 1.35: WHITE SAND BEACH (JACK CLEARY (5)/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 2.10: GLEN BREEZE – EW – (BEN COEN/PADDY MAGEE) 2.45: AQUILLA STAR – EW – (SIOBHAN RUTLEDGE/JOHN MCCONNELL) 3.20: DANDY LAND – EW – (SAM COEN (5)/WILLIE MCCREERY) 3.55: ABBOTSFORD (BILLY LEE/DERMOT WELD) 4.30: LILY PARR (ROBBIE COLGAN/SHEILA LAVERY) 5.05: ACANTO –…
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Hollow logs gather dirt but little else
There are characters in every pub in Ireland – and quite possibly around the globe – of which one of the following will undoubtedly be said at least once. Whether the subject thereof is aware of same or not. “You might as well be pouring water into a barrel of sawdust” or “You may as…
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Selections for Sligo – Sept. 30th 2026
2.20: SIXANDAHALF (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.55: PUTAPOUNDINDJAR (DAN KING/TONY MARTIN) 3.30: MIDNIGHT EAGLE (DAN KING/ANDY MCNAMARA) 4 05: AFFINITY ROCK – EW – (JORDAN GAINFORD/CIAN COLLINS) 4.40: WING BACK – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/SAM CURLING) 5.15: STRAIGHT HOME (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.50: POURQUOI POI (DAN KING/PAUL FLYNN)
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Selections for Bellewstown – Sept. 30th 2026
2.05: ELUSIVE PATH COLIN (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 2.40: THE BLUE PANTHER – EW – (REESE HOLOHAN (5)/AIDAN MELIA) 3.15: DREAM LEGEND – EW – (COLIN KEANE/EAMON DELANY) 3.50: OSTERODE (BILLY LEE/WILLIE MCCREERY) 4.25: SMOKE THEM OUT – EW – (SADHBH TORMEY (7)/TOM MCCOURT) 5.00: JUSTENZIA – EW – (JARED HUGGAN (7)/DENIS HOGAN) 5.35: SOLNESS (JOEY…
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Alone he stood as ‘leaders’ play the blame game
If the tired – but probably accurate – stereotype differentiating between the soccer fraternity and their rugby counterparts in Ireland didn’t exist, chances are somebody would already have a movie script or a play in the works lauding Gavin Bazunu for his courageous, assured decision to withdraw his services from last Sunday evening’s UEFA Nations…
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Selections for Cork – Sept. 29th 2026
1.55: BOLD COMMANDER (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 2.25: PINK VENOM (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 2.55: STAYSOUND SUSIE – EW – (JIMMY DALTON (7)/ANDY SLATTERY) 3.25: AKASHA – EW – (KIAN MCNALLY (10)/NATALIA LUPINI) 3.55: CAUGHT U SLEEPING – EW – (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 4.25: CROSS OF STARS – EW – (GARY CARROLL/JOE MURPHY) 4.55: HELLORHIGHWATER – EW…
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Changing of the guard in Royal land of timber
Years go by with scary rapidity. This weekend 20 years ago, Mick Cole hit a (very) contentiously awarded free four minutes into injury time at the end of the Meath SHC Final, for Rathmolyon against St Peter’s, Dunboyne. Now read on… Well, that is to say he completely mishit it. With the very tip of…
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Selections for Roscommon – Sept. 28th 2026
1.35: DIRECT APPROACH – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.10: EYETRAP – EW – (CONOR SMITHERS (7)/AIDAN MELIA) 2.45: KIMI DA MAI (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.20: DURALITY – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/PAUL FLYNN) 3.55: SMALLCRAFTWARNING – EW – (DAN KING/JOHN RYAN) 4.30: WILD BILL HICOCK (EOGHAN FINEGAN/CIARAN MURPHY) 5.05: MISS LIA (SHANE O’CALLAGHAN (3)/PHILIP ROTHWELL)…
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Selections for Down Royal – Sept. 28th 2026
1.24: PREMIER VIEW (CONOR CUSACK (7)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 1.59: LADY PLIMASOLL – EW – (REESE HOLOHAN (7)/MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN) 2.34: STAR GLORY (CHRIS HAYES/NOEL MEADE) 3.09: DARING HEART (GARY CARROLL/GER LYONS) 3.44: FAOLADH – EW – (SAM COEN (5)/ANDY SLATTERY) 4.19: LIMESTONE RED – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/TRACEY COLLINS) 4.50: CONNECTEO – EW – (BEN COEN/ANDY…
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